This software is about converting session files between yamaha digital audio desks. It is a firefox addon, so you need to have Firefox or a recent version of Thunderbird or Seamonkey installed.
the latest version is to be found here
135kB; version 0.15; september 2011
(if you have an older version installed, the automatic update should work)
This page is not yet a full documentation, as work is going on and things are changing. Also keep in mind that this software might really have bugs, it is under development!
quick instructions
- open the xpi in firefox (thunderbird / seamonkey), install the extension
- after restarting firefox there is a new entry in "extra" or "tools" menu: OpenMixTools
if you can't find it enter this local URL: chrome://omt/content/omt.xul
- click "import file" and load a yamaha session file, either YSE-StudioManager-format or a desk file
a list of the available scenes in that file should be displayed
the last entry "(current state)" holds the current state of the desk from the very moment the file was saved!
- select one of the scenes
its content should be converted to the xml-format and will be shown in the middle (ignore the stylesheet warning)
- you might now save this to a file, edit and reload it - if you want to, or:
- select the desired export model and options and press "export"
a dialog will open to ask for a place and name for the new file
CAUTION: for now this will always be a YSE-file, so you HAVE to name it ending with ".yse" otherwise StudioManager won't be able to open it! also, if you want to reload it to a desk you 1st have to convert this back to a console file using StudioManager - thus any errors should be caught before you load the modified data to a real desk.
- or click on "channellist" / "report" to export a channellist either to clipboard, as csv-data or directly as pdf
the csv-data can easily be imported into a calculation software (OpenOffice, Excel, ...)
and once again:
DO HAVE BACKUP COPIES - this is development stuff, there is no warranty!
this software is neither approved, supported nor developed by Yamaha!
Screenshot
technical notes
the export is based on templates, if you want to use different default settings just locate your firefox profile: press the tmpDir button, it will tell you where the folder is. It contains ..._tmp.yse files (where ... = a desk name)
Open such a "template" yse-file in StudioManager and edit whatever you want, during export in my OpenMixTools the 1st scene will be overwritten with values from the xml-file.
But keep in mind that with the next update of OpenMixTools you will loose your personal template, so be sure to back it up somewhere else.
features
R = read / import; W = write / export
| | PM5D V2 | M7CL | M7CL V2, V3 | LS9 |
|---|
| Input Channels (Mono, Stereo) |
| ChannelNames | RW |
| InputPatch | RW |
| HPF, Atten, Polarity | RW |
| EQ | RW |
| MixBusses | RW (read below) |
| Fader, On, toST | RW |
| Pan | RW |
| HA Gain, 48V | R | RW |
| Delay | RW | -- |
| Mutegroups | RW |
| DCA assign | RW | -- |
| Output Channels (Mixes, Matrix, Stereo) |
| MixNames, Pairing | RW |
| MixTypes (Var/Fixed and PreFad/Post) | RW |
| Fader, On, toST | RW |
| Pan | RW |
| EQ (Mixes) | RW (1st 4 Bands) | RW |
| MatrixMasters (Config, Fader, On, EQ) | R | R (can be Mixes 17-24) | R |
| other |
| SceneName, Comment | RW |
| DCA masters (Name, Fader, Mute) | RW | -- |
| timestamp | R |
| | PM5D V2 | M7CL | M7CL V2, V3 | LS9 |
|---|
notes
- for source files from M7CL the matrix can be set to be imported as mix 17-24
thus converting 24 mixes from M7CL to PM5D is possible (24 mixes from PM5D to M7CL not yet)
- regarding mixbus configuration:
the pre position can be set globally to "preFader" or "preEQ"
follow pan can be set globally
- if the source desk is missing channels (M7CL with 48 chan to LS9 with 64 chan) the remaining channels (49...64) are filled with default values and patched to "none". Similar behaviour applies to missing mixbusses (converting to PM5D).
- Names (Channels, Mixes, DCAs) can have different lengths:
PM5 4 chars, LS9 6 chars and M7 up to 8 characters
with the checkbox "compact names" ticked it will try to strip spaces when converting longer channel names, otherwise they will just be cut off
release history
| 0.15 sept 2011
| added reading of scene timestamp (will be exported into channellist and report)
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| 0.14 sept 2011
| again only increasing Mozilla version number..
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| 0.12 july 2011
| small fix to make it work with Firefox 5 and newer
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| 0.11 may 2011
| small fix to make it work with FF4.01 and newer
new "report" function to export complete channelsheets incl. an example template for OpenOffice
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| 0.09 apr 2011
| works with FF4 - there still is a bug that prevents installing in FF4.01 and newer, will be fixed soon...
added import of matrix-mixes on M7, so 24 mixes can be converted from M7CL to PM5D
some bugs fixed (patch IDs for M7CL V3.5 were missing, export mixbus type for PM5D did not work)
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| 0.08 dec 2010
| added M7CL V3.5
as of now this addon will install in Firefox 4 (and other brandnew beta software using Gecko 2) but it will not work - the next release will...
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| 0.07 nov 2010
| added DCAs and mutegroups
added channellist export (PDF export based on PDF Kreator by Thilo Brai)
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| 0.05 july 2010
| added mixbus EQs
added 2 more export options, small changes to UI
should now be working in Thunderbird V3 and Seamonkey V2 as well
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| 0.04 june 2010
| added Mixbusses and StereoFader
some more export options
button "tmpDir" shows location of template folder
write input delay on PM5
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| 0.03 mar 2010
| added M7CLV3
option to mute all inputs for exported file
read input delay on PM5
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| 0.02b jan 2010
| added scene comment
scenes can now be selected using a double click
some bugs (regarding EQ and channel names) fixed
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| 0.02a dec 2009
| added input EQ
longer channel names on LS9 and M7 supported
creating default values for channels that are missing in the source
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| 0.01 sept 2009
| 1st test version
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